On 09 Apr 2001 14:58:59 -0700, Thomas H. Ptacek wrote: > > Please find attached a patch to pas-file-backend.c that properly > initializes the "view" struct (struct fields including pointers were > being used uninitialized, causing a wild pointer to be passed > to a string routine). This bug caused my PPC build of the snapshot > to crash every other time I entered a recipient in the "To:" field > of the composer. > > General questions: > > What's the best place to submit bugs and patches like this? Either evolution-hackers, or using bugzilla (i.e. file a bug report, attach the diff) > Is there an easy way to generate a diff from a source RPM? I'd just do what you did, but there might be a better way, I don tknow. > Is there an easy way to roll a new source RPM with changes > like this in it based on the original SRPM? What's the "canonical" > way to include patches like this in RPMs? > > Sorry some of these are off-topic. Is anyone maintaining PPC builds > of the snapshots? > > Great job on everything; I've been using 0.8 and 0.9 on > Intel, and 0.8 and the snapshots using binary and SRPMs, for > months now. I can't live without evolution at this point. Cool! If you ever intend to do more than a few minor patches i'd heavily recommend using CVS for this, as its easier to generate diffs, and also easier to maintain local patches to an existing tree, etc. !Z _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.helixcode.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
